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Re: Monotype buys Extensis
You are right, of course, that Monotype don’t have a significant control over typesetting environments, per se, but it seems to me that they are coming at the machine analogy from a different perspec…9 -
Re: Monotype buys Extensis
Which was exactly the reason why typesetting machine manufacturers made and licensed typefaces: to add value to the machines that were their primary source of revenue. My concern with this model is t…9 -
Re: How do you want your text today?
I find the ‘modern version’ introduced in education very problematic. As you observe, the standard form of the script is used in newspaper and road signs, and also in both fiction and non-fiction boo…1 -
Re: Monotype buys Extensis
As I have said many times, the big type companies have been trying for years to resurrect the closed system of typesetting machinery in virtual, digital form. Adobe’s CS font subscription does this, …6 -
Re: The Problem with Text Rendering in Modern Software and Browsers
Most software uses font vertical metrics settings in the OS/2 or hhea tables to determine linespacing and distance from top of text frame, and most software offers users only fairly crude ways to cha…4
